Summary

Written for a prompt on Tumblr: "Five times Babe caught his friends getting busy and one time he got caught BIG TIME (featuring Babe, Gene and really surprising surprise party that didn't go as planned, you know those stories about people who didn't know all their friends were hidden and waiting to yell "surprise!" and they did something inappropriate and it got real awkward real fast?)"

Summary

"Does it hurt?" asked the [Velveteen] Rabbit."Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

An exploration in Speirs. This is a look at the biggest bad-ass of Easy, from a young age living with his parents in Maine to old age living with his partner, Second Lieutenant C. Carwood Lipton, in Montana. How did he go from being the quiet boy no one wanted on their baseball team in PE (even if he could run the bases faster than anyone else) to being the quiet foster father of four? From being a war hero and CO of Easy Company to being a handyman that all the women in the neighbourhood called upon? From being rumour-riddled and nightmare-haunted to being loved and care-worn? This is the story of how Ronald C. Speirs became Real.